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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to...
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English
Description
"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
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Series
Jack Ryan volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Description
Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East?as Deputy Director of the CIA Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a peace plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play: they have their hands on a nuclear weapon and have placed it on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union. The terrorists hope to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between...
8) Nuclear war
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about nuclear war. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
10) The wall
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier. With her loyal dog Lynx as her sole companion she undergoes an inward journey of growth and transcendence.
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Series
Language
English
Description
John Gilstrap's post-apocalyptic new series featuring Victoria Emerson, a West Virginia congresswoman and single mother who becomes the last hope of a nation brought to the brink of destruction. The nightmare scenario has come to pass. America has fallen. In the aftermath, one woman becomes the last hope of a nation and its people in John Gilstrap's electrifying new Victoria Emerson thriller series. West Virginia Congresswoman Victoria Emerson has...
12) Plan of attack
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Series
Patrick McLanahan volume 12
Language
English
Description
Major General Patrick McLanahan, disgraced but unbowed after initiating an unauthorized attack on a Russian missile battery, must find a way to convince the government and the armed forces to follow his lead after he discovers the president of the Russian Federation is planning a long-range bomber attack on the U.S. mainland.
15) On the beach
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
16) The divide
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
As nuclear warheads rain down on Manhattan, nine strangers barricade themselves in their apartment building's bunker-like basement controlled by the unhinged superintendent. But within days, supplies dwindle, tempers flare, and the trapped survivors will be overcome by treachery, madness, sexual torment, and savage violence. What follows is intense. It is raw. And it is all brutally, horrifyingly real.
18) The twelfth Imam
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English
Description
As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi...